What is macroecology?

Natalie Cooper (natalie.cooper@nhm.ac.uk)

2018-02-20

What is macroecology?

Macroecology is ecology at large spatial scales

What is macroecology?

What is macroecology?

Ecology at large scales

Why did macroecology emerge?

Why did macroecology emerge?

What do we study in macroecology?

Species area-relationships

Species area-relationships

Species area-relationships

Body-size diversity relationships

Abundance body-size relationships

Macroecological “rules”

Macroecological “rules”

Hotspots of biodiversity

Latitudinal diversity gradients

Why are there more species in the tropics?

Why is diverification higher in the tropics?

Bias in counting species

How do we study macroecology?

Modern macroecology

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